Includes index

Overture -- Montage -- The beginning -- Sir Henry, Sir Malcolm and the prodigy -- Bill and Annie and the outlaws -- What might have been -- Seizing the dream -- Leaving the beach -- Maiden voyage in eerie air -- Tempests -- Ci sono molte corse in America! -- Yar-BURROW, Yar-BRO -- The king -- The fox -- Shenanigan -- Charity as payback -- The bull -- Mill hill zen -- With the breeze and against the wind -- Earnhardt -- Dark side -- The fight -- Worlds apart -- Bumper-brilliance -- Jaws and D.W. -- "The last one" -- Boys to raise -- High rolling -- The end of the party -- The nature of the occupation -- "Don't lie to me!" -- The Daytona 499 -- Blackjack and other games of chance -- "When I ... saw that boy was dead ..." -- "Who is this guy?" -- Casualties of war -- "You better go--he's comin'" -- No Prozac--yet -- By a knockout -- Don't cry out loud -- The best there's ever been -- Ebb -- Fade to black

A history of the Daytona 500 and NASCAR ranges from the first race in 1959 to the death of Dale Earnhardt in a collision during the 2001 race and offers a glimpse of the world of stock car racing and profiles of the racers who have transformed the sport

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